jꜣwt

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iɑuːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: iaut

 f

1. office, dignity, position [since the Old Kingdom]
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 18:

     gm.n.tw ḥr ḫrw.f mꜣꜥ.w rdjw n.f jꜣwt nt (j)t.f

     Horus was found justified; the office of his father was given to him.

2. function, role, duty
3. (in the plural, by metonymy) officials, officeholders
4. (Late Egyptian) occupation, profession

• jꜣwtj

jꜣwj (“to be(come) old”) +‎ -t.

 f

1. (uncountable) old age [since the Middle Kingdom]

   Synonym: jꜣw

jꜣw (“old man”) +‎ -t (feminine suffix).

 f

1. old woman [since the Pyramid Texts]

From the plural of jꜣt (“mound”).

 f pl

1. (plural only) Egypt [Greco-Roman Period]

 f pl

1. (Late Egyptian) Alternative form of ꜥwt (“four-legged animals, herds”)

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 455.
• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 242
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 26.13, 28.13–28.14, 29.3, 29.7–29.13, 29.15–29.16
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 7–8